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Down These Mean Streets choose

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[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 246: The lawyers stepped forward to cop pleas for another chance, mercy and all that jazz.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 19: Aw, look at her. [...] Trying to make like I’m not your big love.
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 120: Powerful stuff, that thar white skin, but it don’t mean a shit hill of beans alongside a Negro’s blood.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 73: ‘Hey,’ Crip asked, ‘ain’t you gonna pay for them bags of Kool-ade?’ ‘Naw, if we cop a steal, we might as well go all the way.’.
at cop a steal (v.) under cop a..., v.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 200: I never figured on getting hooked all the way. I was only gonna play it for a Pepsi-Cola kick.
at -a, sfx
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 13: A few weeks later Poppa got a job in an airplane factory. ‘How about that?’ he said happily.
at how about that (then)?, phr.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 180: I didn’t want to turn my ace-coon boon against me, but all my life I had wanted to be for real.
at ace boon coon, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 242: The questions came real fast and I pulled a weak act.
at pull a — act (v.) under act, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 30: I felt a fuck-it-all attitude.
at fuck-it-all, adj.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 17: ‘Cool it, man,’ I said and grinned a screw-you-amigo smile.
at amigo, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 75: But the lemonade syndicate, like copping milk bottles, was nickel and dime.
at nickel-and-dime, adj.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 107: I was kicking these thoughts around one day, sitting in El Viejo’s candy store.
at kick around, v.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 121: The dozens is a dangerous game even among friends, and many a tooth has been lost between fine, ass-tight amigos.
at ass-tight under ass, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 165: Hey, Pi-ri! [...] shake your ass, man. This heah meter is countin’ his mother off.
at shake one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 322: You remember all that crap you went through? What you want to do, go on for the rest of your life with your ass hangin’?
at have one’s ass hanging (out) under ass, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 228: ‘Nothing but faggots and soft asses in there,’ he said.
at soft ass, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 81: Still thinking about Paulie all the time and how she took him to the hospital just to get some simple-assed tonsils out. And Paulie died.
at -assed, sfx
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 232: ‘This is a stick-up.’ His voice sounded like bombs falling. Attaboy, Danny.
at attaboy!, excl.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 319: One of the bad scenes of parole violation is associating with ex-cons or known criminals.
at bad scene (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 242: The people around me didn’t say anything, nor look bad-eye at me, but they knew.
at bad-eye, n.2
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 140: ‘Later, turkey. Be good.’ ‘Yeah, baby, take it slow.’.
at be good!, excl.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 243: He told me to go crazy and I’d beat the chair. I thought hard on that, but I couldn’t make like a loco.
at beat, v.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 13: The next day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. ‘My God,’ said Poppa. ‘We’re at war.’ ‘Dios mío,’ said Momma. I turned to James. ‘Can you beat that.’.
at can you beat it? under beat, v.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 102: You was in there a beau-coup long-ass time.
at beaucoup, adv.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 125: My eyes followed a fast-moving behind going up the stoop across the street.
at behind, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 224: Two weeks later she went to Puerto Rico where, after a while, she began growing a belly.
at get a belly (v.) under belly, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 218: What if he still goes for his piece? I’ll hit him for the big one, in the head.
at big one, n.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 312: I didn’t know what had happened to Danny and Billy. Maybe the Bronx had them doing some big time.
at big time, n.2
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 70: I dreamed big; it didn’t cost anything.
at big, adv.
[US] P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 316: I quietly climbed down from my top bunk and bent my knees, feeling like for the first time in my life I was really going to get together with the Big Man.
at big boss, the, n.
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